[josm-dev] Please do not change long established shortcuts

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Mon, 30 Apr 2012, Maarten Deen wrote:

>>  'N' was simply a secondary key for 'A' for a very long time now. It had
>>  exactly same function and thus has been removed. To place a single node
>>  use <SHIFT> + Click or <ESC> and afterwards Click.
>
> N had not the same function. A starts a way, N sets a node. To set one node 
> now, you have to do the things you mention. To set one note before you only 
> had to select N and click once.

I find no code which validates your description. <N> was removed in this 
changeset and it was a simple analogon to <A>:

https://josm.openstreetmap.de/changeset/4956/josm/trunk/src/org/openstreetmap/josm/actions/mapmode/DrawAction.java

If it was as you described, then it vanished a long time ago and nobody 
noticed it. Which also is a good point to remove it.

> In any case: it is more work. Yes, I'm nitpicking, but nitpicking is easy 
> when there is no guide or releasenotes where this is mentioned.

It is still mentioned on the Start page, that key assignment are changed. 
For 3 months now.

Ciao
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